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NORTHERN NEWS. 
We regret to notice the death of the Rev. E. X. Bloomfield, M.A., the 
well-known entomologist. 
The Agricultural Economist and Horticultural Review for June contains 
an illustrated article on the charms of Harrogate. 
Professor C. J. Patten, of Sheffield, gave a series of lectures on ‘ Bird 
Migration,’ at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, during 
May. 
In Xo. 2323 of Nature, Professor Schafer makes a strong attack on the 
anti-vivisectionists in regard to their attempts to prohibit experiments 
on dogs. 
The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries has issued Leaflet No. 284 
dealing with the preservation of outdoor timber, which should be read by 
everyone interested. 
The Forty-third Report of the Public Libraries, Art Galleries and 
Museums Committee of Rochdale is to hand and contains an account of the 
work done at these institutions during the year. 
The Journal of the Board of Agriculture for May contains articles on 
‘ Some Irish Larch Plantations,’ ‘ Pollination and Fertilisation of Hops,’ 
‘ the Wart Disease of Potatoes,’ and ' Xarcissus Flies.’ 
Part 89 of The Yorkshire A rchceological Journal is largely occupied by 
an account of the History of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society-, with 
photographs and notices of the more prominent members, by Mr. S. J. 
Chadwick. 
Part 4 of Volume 6 of the A nnals of A rchceology and A nthropology , issued 
by the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology^, contains a well- illustrated 
report on the Roman Cemetery in the Infirmary Field, Chester, by Prof. 
R. Xewstead. 
Mr. George Abbott has favoured us with a copy- of his paper on ‘ Discoid 
Limestones which Simulate Organic Characters — A case of Inorganic 
Evolution ’ which is reprinted from The Pioneer for March. It is illus- 
trated by a number of excellent photographs. 
Professor Sollas has recently visited the ' painted caves ’ in Xorth Spain 
and saw some impressions of human hands on the walls. He assumes 
that these are of palaeolithic man, compares the imprints with those of 
Englishmen, and opines that the hands of palaeolithic man were unusually 
large, and concludes by these alleged imprints that ‘ the existence of 
two distinct races in the Aurignacian age, already indicated by the Men- 
tone skeletons and the carved statuettes, receives additional confimation.’ 
We hope for the sake of Professor Sollas’ reputation that no one will come 
forward to point out that these are modern impressions. 
At the recent annual meeting of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary- 
Society numerous gifts to the museum were recorded. Among them 
was a valuable and perfect bronze halbert with its three rivets intact, of 
the period of 1300-1000 b.c., found in a layer of sand, in which were pieces 
of black oak ly-ing right above it, given by Mr. W. H. Bartholomew. Mr. 
Bartholomew had supplemented this donation by a further gift of eleven 
brenze objects, which were dredged up some years ago from a gravel bed 
in the River Calder, a short distance below Smalley Bight, near Stanley 
Ferry. The series consisted of a flanged celt, a palstave, seven looped 
socketed celts, a socketed celt without a loop, and a bronze object with a 
bearded man’s head on it. These objects had the added interest of being 
local finds, and also in being in a very fine state of preservation, the patina 
on the celts being little injured. This acquisition was one of the most 
valuable donations received by the society- in late years. 
Naturalist, 
